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General Announcements

• Conference #2 will be scheduled for later this week.
• Recitation Friday Oct. 3 will end by 1:45 to prepare for the Graduate Research Symposium. See your TAs present research posters in Thomas Great Hall 3-5 P. M.
• Topics this week--dilutions and gases.
• Please pick up Exam 1 and make sure you understand concepts and problem-solving.

• Many of you need to practice exponents with your calculators.

• Wed. Oct. 8 7-9 PM PSB 338--Math Clinic--"Logarithms and Exponents"
• Need Help? Come to Office hours, PLI, or the Peer Mentoring Services in Collier and Canaday Libraries.
• Collier Science Library has copies of Chang's textbook and workbook on reserve behind the front desk.
• General Information
• Grading Information
• Peer Led Instructionwith Cara Blankenbicker
• Peer-Led Instruction Tuesday 7:30-8:30 PM in PSB 264
• Successful solitary stuggling and other strategies for success
• Student to student advice
• 8 Chemistry Commandments
• PSB Made Easy and PSB Map

  Learning these by heart will help

  1. Units for large and small quantities
  2. Ions

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  Contacting Professor White

  Room PSB 202		Phone x5107
  Office Hours	M 10-11, 4-5, W 3-4, F 10-11, 3-4	e-mail swhite@brynmawr.edu
  Peer Led Instruction (PLI)	Cara Blankenbicker	cblanken@brynmawr.edu

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  • Required Textbook--Essentials of Chemistry 3e Chang
  • Optional Textbook--Problem-Solving Workbook (works well if several students share)
  • Syllabus (with reading assignments and exam dates)
  • Weekly Problem Assignments
  • Review your math skills.

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  Student Reactions to Lecture

  • Sample lecture summary for extra credit.
  • Sept. 15 Lecture for extra credit.
  • Sept. 24 Lecture for extra credit.

  Solutions to HW Problems

• Solutions to assigned problems in Chapter 1.
• Normally posted after they are "due". You should try to solve them without looking at the solution!
• Solutions recitation problems 9/5 (units and atoms).
• Solutions Chapter 2 assigned problems.
• Solutions to Recitation 2 problems.
• Solutions to Chapter 3 assigned problems.
• Solutions to Chapter 4 assigned problems.

  Solutions Quizzes and Exams

  1. Solutions to Quiz 1.
  2. Solutions to Quiz 2.
  3. Solutions to Take Home Quiz 3.
  4. Solutions to Exam 1.

  Useful Chemical Links

• Be sure to attend lab orientation Sept. 1-4 Lab and Lab Sign-up
• Periodic Table from thecomics
• Chemistry Colloquia with Speaker Links
• Get Ready for National Mole Day
• National Chemistry Week Oct. 19-25
• Ideal Gas Simulation
• About Research

• Some students are co-authors on scientific papers. Publications

  Get a life!

  Everyone needs hobbies and distractions so when your coursework is done, go exploring. Aside from RNA, here are some of Professor White's hobbies.
  • Women's Pro Tennis Comes to Villanova
  • Women's World Cup Soccer. Follow the tournament 9/20 - 10 /12.
  • Sabbatical locale
  • Barnes museum may be visited electronically or in person
  • Take a hike! Or join Bryn Mawr's new mountain bike club! Natalie Smith.
  • But discipline and organization are keys totime managementand success in College. Make sure you eat, sleep, and exercise regularly

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